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I’m super-excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Velocity NYC this October! My talk is about what exactly you can do to get out from under a failure of your single DNS provider, if you were so unfortunate as to have only one. It turns out that this question is much harder to answer than I ever imagined.

Microservices are pretty popular right now, and lots of folks have great stuff to say about them. But much like with a lot of the tips in Google’s SRE book, we shouldn’t just blindly implement them. If your company isn’t Netflix or Uber, microservices may cause more harm than good, says Adam Drake.

Not only is this a good idea if you want Ops to be able to actually run your code without pulling their hair, it just generally means more reliable code. This article goes not only into the “how”, but the “why” too.